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Scryed was… barebones, essentially. Kind of a low animation budget, pretty linear storyline, and mostly straight-forward characters. Sometimes things just aren’t very complicated, though. Given that most of the characters were super-powered teenagers they would have been out of place in some kind of magnum opus.

I dunno, FMA: Brotherhood was one of the best series I’ve ever seen, but it’s not the kind of thing I could watch over and over bordering on continuous looping like I can some other shows. It’s undoubtedly “better” from a story-telling standpoint than a lot of the stuff I would watch repeatedly, but might be why I couldn’t watch it as often; once you get too familiar with an epic tale it might start to get disappointing that what was once a great series of plot twists no longer carries the same …

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I’m not sure the person who said the cat looks “incredibly unhappy” has ever even owned a cat. This cat does not look unhappy at all. His eyes are squinty in the next to last one, which cats will only do to express ease in a situation, and his ears are pointed up the entire time. Cats lay their ears back when upset or frightened. Also, his fur is not raised at all. There is nothing in this cats body language that tells me he’s not actually enjoying it, or at the very least sees no reason not to …

While I don’t agree with the list, I can see the arguments for everything on here. …except Higurashi. What the hell is that doing here? Granted, the animation sucks, but I still don’t see how it gets a spot here.